Monster Whitetail by Woman Hunter

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Deb Luzinski of Woodbury went bowhunting Friday intending to shoot a doe to
help control the deer population at Bald Eagle-Otter Lakes Regional Park in
Ramsey County.


Instead, the veteran hunter bagged one of the biggest bucks ever taken by a
Minnesota woman.


With antler points splaying in all directions, Luzinski's 24-point buck
should rank among the top three nontypical - or nonsymmetrical -
white-tailed deer ever killed with a bow and arrow, according to the
Minnesota Record Book, the state's official record-keeping book.


Only men hold the positions above her, so Luzinski, a 38-year-old mother of
two, would hold the top nontypical deer killed by a female bowhunter in
Minnesota.


"I'm not a trophy hunter, so to speak; I firmly believe in hunting as a
part of deer management,'' she said. "My intent that night was to shoot a
doe, but this buck was unfathomable."


Hers is not a "Cinderella story,'' she said. The professional landscaper
and self-described born-again Christian has been archery hunting for 15
years, killing 64 does and five bucks in that time.


Hunting is "a part of my being,'' she said, "a part of who I am."


She is also a member of the Metro Bowhunters Resource Base, a nonprofit
organization that helps urban communities cull problem deer herds. This
year, she and her husband, Mark, are coordinating the archery hunt at Bald
Eagle-Otter Lakes Regional Park, which lies between Otter Lake and Bald
Eagle Lake in White Bear Township.


MBRB hunters, who are required to pass proficiency tests, are participating
in four three-day archery hunts on the Otter Lake side of the park this
year. It is closed to others during controlled hunts.


One of her jobs was to coordinate the 16 hunters in the park Friday, and
after the others had picked their hunting locations and put up their
stands, "I picked the last spot next to a cattail swamp that nobody
wanted,'' she said. "I hadn't set foot in the spot until Friday."


Luzinski set up her stand at noon, returning to it around 3:50 p.m. About
40 minutes later, she heard "cattails rustling" and spotted a 10-point buck
approaching. Wearing a scent-controlling carbon-fiber suit and using a call
that simulates the sound of a doe bleating, she lured the 10-pointer to
within 50 yards.


Then, the bigger buck made his entrance.


"I heard crashing, and I said, 'Oh, my Lord, what is that?' The other buck
was absolutely huge. He had cattails hanging all over his antlers.


"I thought they were going to go at it,'' Luzinski said about watching the
two bucks approach each other, "but the 10-pointer just dropped his head
and backed up."


When the 10-pointer began "blowing and wheezing,'' Luzinski said, she
thought it would scare the bigger deer off. But the 10-pointer walked away,
and she was able lure the 24-pointer within 17 yards using her doe-bleating
call.


Her aim was true. She and friend Ron Cormier later recovered the buck 65
yards away.


The 24-pointer was 3? years old and weighed about 190 pounds - a relatively
small and young buck, considering his antler size, Luzinski said.


The buck's antlers have been measured using the Boone and Crockett scoring
method, which determines a deer's antler size in inches, based on number of
points, thickness and width of the antlers, with deductions for
imperfections. Luzinski's buck nets a score of 220 inches, which is a
"green" score before a mandatory 60-day drying period.


The state's biggest nontypical whitetail killed by archery measures 2234/8,
taken by Glen Bullick in 1989. The No. 2 archery deer measures 2225/8 and
No. 3 measures 2175/8, so it is possible Luzinski's deer would claim that
spot, according to the Minnesota Record Book.


Among combined firearms and archery kills, her buck would rank in the top

Luzinski was swamped with curiosity seekers when she registered the deer at
Blue Ribbon Bait in Oakdale. Since then, her cell phone has been ringing
nonstop; with the firearms deer season opening Saturday, her buck is the
dream deer of any hunter in the state.


"It's just surreal,'' she said.
 
WOW!!! that is a MONSTER whitey!! congrats to her.

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